FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)A horse covering a she-donkey, while straddling a monk riding itFRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)A horse covering a she-donkey, while straddling a monk riding itinscribed ‘Este Caso sucedio en Aragon sien-/ do yo muchacho, y el religioso quedo muy/ maltratado del caballo y la Borrica.’ (upper center), numbered by the artist ‘38’ (upper left), with number by Madrazo ‘19’ (upper left), and with inscription ‘F. Goya’ (lower left)brush and brown ink, fragmentary watermark coat of arms surmounted by a cross8 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (20.5 x 14.3 cm)Details FRANCISCO DE GOYA Y LUCIENTES (1746-1828)A horse covering a she-donkey, while straddling a monk riding itinscribed ‘Este Caso sucedio en Aragon sien-/ do yo muchacho, y el religioso quedo muy/ maltratado del caballo y la Borrica.’ (upper center), numbered by the artist ‘38’ (upper left), with number by Madrazo ‘19’ (upper left), and with inscription ‘F. Goya’ (lower left)brush and brown ink, fragmentary watermark coat of arms surmounted by a cross8 1/8 x 5 5/8 in. (20.5 x 14.3 cm) Provenance The artist, part of Album F, ‘Images of Spain’, no. 38.Javier Goya y Bayeu, Madrid (by descent from the above, 1828, as part of one of three albums formed by him of his father’s drawings).Mariano Goya y Goicoechea, Madrid (by descent from the above, 1854, as part of one of the three albums formed by Javier Goya).Federico de Madrazo y Kuntz, Madrid, and his brother-in-law, Román Garreta y Huerta, Madrid (acquired through Valentín Carderera Solano, 1856, as part of two of the three albums formed by Javier Goya).Federico de Madrazo, Madrid (1866, as part of one remaining album, split up circa 1870 in four groups, with the present drawing numbered ‘19’).By descent to his sons; sale, consigned with most (or all?) of the drawings in three of these four groups through Paul Lebas, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 3 April 1877, lot 40.Émile-Louis-Dominique Calando, Paris (Lugt 837) (acquired at the above sale); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-12 December 1899, lot 74.Georges Bourgarel, Paris (acquired at the above sale); sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13-15 November 1922, lot 90.Martin Birnbaum, New York.Helen and Murray Snell Danforth, Providence, Rhode Island (acquired from the above, 1933, then by descent to the late owner). Literature Sir William Stirling-Maxwell’s manuscript travel journal from 1849, fol. 77v (published in Brigstocke, op. cit., 2015).F. Lugt, Les Marques de collections de dessins et d’estampes […], Amsterdam, 1921, p. 150, under no. 837.P. Gassier and J. Wilson, Goya. His Life and Work, London, 1971, no. 1463, ill.P. Gassier, ‘Une source inédite de dessins de Goya en France au XIXe siècle’, Gazette des beaux-arts, CXIV, sixth series, LXXX, p. 113, no. 40.P. Gassier, Francisco Goya. Drawings. The Complete Albums, New York and Washington, D.C., 1973, p. 388, no. 308, ill.H. Brigstocke, ‘El descubrimiento del arte español del Siglo de Oro’, in idem and Z. Véliz, eds., En torno a Velázquez. Pintura española del siglo de oro, exhib. cat., Ovideo, Museo de Bellas Artes de Asturias, Palacio de Velarde, 1999-2000, p. 14.J. Tomlinson, ‘Recent Publications on Goya’s Prints and Drawings’, Master Drawings, XLII, no. 1, Spring 2004, p. 82.H. Brigstocke, ed., and A. Jackson, transcription, ‘William Stirling’s Travel Journal, 1849’, in Brigstocke, with A. Delaforce, British Travellers in Spain, 1766-1849, London, 2015 (The Walpole Society, LXXVII), pp. 316-317.José Manuel de la Mano, Javier Goya’s Legacy. The Albums of his Father’s Drawings, Madrid, 2021, pp. 24, 27, fig. 10, p. 173.M. McDonald, Goya’s Graphic Imagination, exhib. cat., New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2021, p. 169.‘Albums E and F’, in Goya, exhib. cat. Basel, Fondation Beyeler, 2021-2022, pp. 310, 311 (essay by M. McDonald).Denis Calando, ‘Émile Calando (1840-1898): A Modest Collector with a Mighty Collection’, Master Drawings, LX, no. 4, Winter 2022, p. 527, included in fig. 15.‘Catálogo’, in the online database of the Fundación Goya en Aragón (accessed April 2023, at https://fundaciongoyaenaragon.es/eng/obra/este-caso-sucedio-en-aragon-siendo-yo-muchacho-f-38/1711). Exhibited London, Hayward Gallery, Goya. Drawings from his Private Albums, 2001, no. 54, ill. (catalogue by J. Wilson-Bareau). Conditions of saleProperty from the Estate of Sophie F. Danforth